Elon Musk
Big Tech firms can sack more employees to boost productivity: Musk
Musk slashed over 80 per cent of the Twitter staff in October-November last year as he took over after acquiring the platform for $44 billion. Speaking virtually at The Wall Street Journal's summit in London, Musk said there were a lot of people at Twitter that didn't seem to have a lot of value. I think that's true at many.
Twitter launches new $5K per month API tier for startups
With the tier, developers will be able to fetch one million tweets per month, post 3,00,000 tweets per month, and gets access to the full archive search endpoint. "Today we are launching our new access tier, Twitter API Pro," Twitter Dev tweeted on Thursday.
Musk's Neuralink brain implant gets FDA approval for human trials
"We are excited to share that we have received the FDA's approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study," Neuralink tweeted on Thursday. "This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people,"
DeSantis tech fiasco top story on earth, all Prez candidates welcome on Twitter: Musk
Reacting to how traditional media described the technical glitch, Musk said: "I call it massive attention. Top story on Earth today." He further said: "All Presidential candidates are most welcome on this platform." The livestream event was hosted by Musk and David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur. "This was by far the biggest room ever held on.
Twitter to add 15-sec forward, back buttons along with pic in pic mode
Replying to a user on Twitter who asked Musk to add 15-second forward and back seek buttons, he said, "Coming next week, along with pic in pic, so you can watch while scrolling".Picture-in-picture (PiP) mode shrinks a video into a small player so users can keep watching while using other apps on their mobile devices.
'Over my dead body': Musk tells investor on paying Twitter office rent
According to a new lawsuit filed by six former Twitter employees against Twitter, Pablo Mendoza, a venture capitalist who invested in Twitter 2.0, had a chat with Musk in the wee hours, reports Business Insider. Musk bluntly told Mendoza that not paying rent was non-negotiable with 'over his dead body' remark.
US to probe Twitter for breaking laws following lawsuit from ex-employees
The lawsuit from six employees alleged that Musk's team "knowingly broke local and federal laws," reports San Francisco Chronicle. They are seeking severance and punitive damages for "flagrant bad faith".Twitter's new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts.
Twitter takes on YouTube, allows paid users to upload 2-hr long videos
The microblogging platform also changed its Twitter Blue page and announced that the video file size limit for paid users has been raised from 2GB to 8GB. "Twitter Blue Verified subscribers can now upload 2-hour videos (8GB)," Musk tweeted on Thursday.
Musk sends letter to Nadella, accuses Microsoft of violating Twitter data
Musk's personal lawyer Alex Spiro said in the letter sent on behalf of Twitter that their recent review of the tech giant's activity on the Microsoft Apps indicates that "Microsoft may have been in violation of multiple provisions of the Agreement for an extended period of time".
6 in 10 users took a break from Twitter in past year in US: Pew survey
While a majority who used Twitter in the past year report taking a break from the platform, a quarter of them say they are not likely to use it a year from now, according to the Pew survey conducted about five months after billionaire Elon Musk acquired the platform for $44 billion.
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